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COFFEE. 



TABLE X. — Cost of Exchange in Eio de Janeieo. 



Comparative Table, showing Lowest and Highest Bates of Exchange 

 from 1850 to 1879, inclusive — in Bio de Janeiro— from Official 

 Quotations. 



TABLE XL — The "World's Peoduction of Coffee. 



(From Ceylon Directory.') 



Countries. 



Estimated 

 Area under 

 Cultivation. 



Present 

 Maximum 

 Export of 



Coffee. 



Estimated 

 Local Con- 

 sumption. 



Total 

 Maximum 

 Production, 



Brazil (inclnding exports from Rio, Santos, 

 Bahia, Pemambuco, and Geara) 



Java and Sumatra 



Ceylon 



India 



Central America (between United States and 

 Venezuela) 



Venezuela. Peru, Bolivia, and Guianas 



Hay ti or San Domingo 



Cuba and Porto Rico 



West Indies 



Arabia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Abys- 

 synia, Mozambique, and north-east coast of 

 AjErica 



Natal 



Liberia and West Coast from Loanda to Cape de 

 Verde Islands, including Lagos, Sierra Leone. 

 Gambia, Gold Coast, Elmina, St. Thomas. 

 St. Helena, etc., etc 



Manilla, Celebes, and rest of Eastern Archi- 

 pelago and Australia 



Sandwich Islands and rent of Pacific Isles, in- 

 cluding Fiji and New Caledonia 



Acres. 



1,600,000 



1,200,000 



263,000 



150,000 



210,000 

 220,000 

 200,000 

 130.000 

 40,000 



220.000 

 800 



100,000 

 45,000 

 12,500 



Total 4,291,300 



Tons. 



240,000 

 90,000 

 50,000 

 25,000 



40,000 

 40,000 

 28.000 

 17 000 

 5,.300 



7,500 

 60 



4,600 

 6,000 

 1,200 



Tons. 



60,000 



20,000 



6,000 



7,000 



B,000 

 8,000 

 7,000 

 8.000 

 3,500 



22,500 

 60 



10,000 

 3,000 

 1,000 



553,650 



160,060 



Tons. 



. 300,000 



110,000 



65.000 



32,000 



46,000 

 48,000 

 35,0C0 

 25.000 

 8,800 



30,000 

 100 



14,500 

 8,000 

 2,200 



713,600 



The value of the world's production of coffee (over 14,000,000 cwts.) would be about 50,000,000 

 pounds sterling in the wholesale markets. 



